I haven't touched housework for a long time, and I really don't know where to start when I suddenly want to do it. Because of the proximity to the road, even if the doors and windows are closed, and the rooms that have not been entered for several months, the windowsills and other places quickly accumulate a thin layer of visible dust. When you open the curtains with the lightest movement, the fine dust will immediately disperse, reflecting golden points of light in the clear autumn sun, suspended in the air. The wide moat in the distance has become clearer and clearer because of the two years of good protection, faithfully reflecting the magnificent blue of the sky.

Tang Jianyu wore a mask and walked around his apartment in old clothes, and finally gave up his plan to clean it himself. He changed his clothes and went straight to the street. Because after leaving middle school abroad, although Tang Jianyu has been to the town several times intermittently, they have stayed for a short time and only moved in the apartment. People walked the streets, so to speak, four or five years ago.

The bustling streets contain the vitality of the town's development, and the evidence is that there are people in many small alleys who are willing to open shops. Tang Jianyu went straight to the door of the Sichuan proprietress restaurant where he used to eat, the façade seemed to have been renovated, but the signboard was still the same in black on a red background.

After the meal, there were no customers in the store, and the tables and chairs were cleaned up, and they looked as clean and crisp as ever. A shiny head was buried behind the ledger, and the music of "fighting the landlord" came from the mobile phone. Hearing the footsteps, the boss raised his head and said casually, "Eat something, you have it." Tang Jianyu smiled, "I won't eat today." The boss was stunned for a moment, then suddenly stood up and laughed, "Ah, Teacher Tang, isn't this Teacher Xiao Tang!" Are you back? ”

Before Tang Jianyu could grab the boss's outstretched hand, a woman rushed out of the back kitchen and shouted, "Xiao Tang is back!" "Who's not the boss lady? The husband and wife invited Tang Jianyu to sit down and chatted about his homely routine when he left the town, and they were very happy to hear that he was planning to come back. "Come to dinner today?" The proprietress asked, Tang Jianyu waved his hand, "In a few days." Today I came to ask, is there any door-to-door cleaning can be introduced, the house is too dirty. ”

The proprietress hurriedly took out her mobile phone to find the number, and the boss pointed to his wife, "Your eldest sister is a know-it-all in the township." Tang Jianyu laughed, "In the past, it was also thanks to you for taking care of me." The boss waved his hand when he heard this, "We are under your care, and the business is almost the same, the neighbors." Tang Jianyu laughed, and a warm sense of stability swelled in his heart, which he had never experienced elsewhere.

After rejecting the invitation of B University, Tang Jianyu made a shocking move, he chose to return to the town and take the initiative to contact the leaders of the middle school. In the past, Director Liang of the Academic Affairs Office had been promoted to vice president, and he was extremely excited when he saw Tang Jianyu again, "You still remember how you left, leave without pay!" It's been four or five years, and if you don't squeak anymore, I'm going to ask for someone directly. There is a lot of news about you in the science and education circle, and I am so proud to hear it, this is a scholar who has gone out of our township middle school! ”

Tang Jianyu scratched his head shyly, "I should have come back to report a long time ago." The school has also developed very well in the past two years. The vice principal nodded, "Four-star middle school, the campus has also been expanded, and the enrollment area has also been relaxed. There may still be a gap with the city-level schools, but it is definitely one of the best in the township! Now the faculty is changing, and many graduate students are happy to come. You came back at the right time, the school needs a scientist like you, even if you don't teach, a name is a golden signboard. ”

"I heard that you quit the B major. Hey, the treatment of middle school is definitely not as good as that of the university, but it is definitely not bad for you, today the principal and they went to the province for a meeting, otherwise they must have received it in person. I called back at noon and asked you what about it! Principal Liang rubbed his hands and said. Tang Jianyu saw that the other party was so sincere, but he felt ashamed in his heart, and said: "You are my old leader, I really don't know how to take it when I say this." ”

After talking to Vice President Liang, Tang Jianyu went around the campus alone. It was the second class in the afternoon, and the whole campus was quiet except for some students on the sports field who were in physical education class. The osmanthus tree, which has been growing for several years, is in its flowering season, and the deep and light yellow flowers are densely hidden in the hard leaves, and the sweet smell permeates the whole space. The playground has been rebuilt with a new crimson color that complements the greenery in the centre.

Tang Jianyu looked around, three shy female students hugged together, and shyly called "Hello teacher", Tang Jianyu couldn't help but be stunned, and quickly responded gently, "Hello." The female students huddled together and ran away nervously. Tang Jianyu shook his head with a smile and continued to walk towards junior high school.

The main road running through the north and south of the campus passes through the junior high school teaching building, and on both sides of the wide passage, one side is equipped with a wall full of LCD screens, which are statically playing the school spirit and discipline at the moment; On the other side, there is a former bulletin board and a huge blackboard, on which a selection of small articles written by students in each class are copied. "I don't know a name." Tang Jianyu lingered on the blackboard wall for a while, and then walked through the passage to the front of the teaching building.

He looked through the window at the first lecture hall in the corridor, and the tables and chairs were no longer made of yellow and wood, but had been replaced by a more modern gray and white, which looked simple and neat. A group of boys passed by with a basketball, looked at this man with an extraordinary temperament curiously, wanted to say hello and felt embarrassed, so they pushed each other and left Tang Jianyu's sight. Looking in the direction they came out, it was the staircase that he had gone up and down a thousand times, "Do you want to go up and see them?" Tang Jianyu raised his foot and took it back, "Let's wait until the matter is decided." ”

In this way, he walked to the small landscape area in front of the building, walked into the cement corridor covered with flowers and wisteria leaves, folded a cobblestone path halfway, bypassed half a small pond, and walked into a corner of the woods. Less than ten trees grew in size, the thickest of which was no thicker than an adult's calf, and its purple-red bark and leaves had a dull red color. Tang Jianyu carefully identified the shape of the leaves, and then remembered that this was a cherry tree.

Under the tall canopy of the same tree, Shi Jiaojiao once raised her head and told him that there were many cherry trees in the town middle school, although they were small, they bloomed like snow and were very beautiful. Plants are stubborn, and when they take root in one place, they spend their whole lives sticking to their place, will people do the same? Tang Jianyu had no answer. Perhaps in the eyes of others, he himself is a stupid tree.

The town middle school quickly implemented Tang Jianyu's establishment and let him participate in the teaching work, and also gave the greatest flexibility in the actual teaching arrangement. Tang Jianyu understands that there is no shortage of teachers in the school now, and he quickly accepts him again, only because he values his degree and major that can increase the weight of teachers, as well as the experience of overseas study. This is completely in line with Tang Jianyu's concept: while being able to carry out most of the scientific work, there is also a valid reason to live in the town for a long time.

After the office equipment company installed the necessary office equipment, such as fax machines and printers, and prepared all the matters for restarting his life, Tang Jianyu took the time to go home and announce the decision to his parents. In the past, because he went to the village primary school, his father, who had gambled with Tang Jianyu for four years, didn't say anything, and his mother was unexpectedly furious and shouted, "What do you mean? Is there something in that town that beckons your soul? I went around and around abroad, you ignored the famous school, and ran to that broken place again, are you going to lose it there for the rest of your life! Tang Jianyu took a sip of water calmly and said, "I'm mature enough to make decisions for myself." ”

Mu has become a boat, looking at the appearance of her husband staying out of the matter, it is obvious that he is all the way with his son, and Tang's mother has nothing to say, so she has to shake her hand and say to herself: "Whatever you want, more than half of the people in your thirties, I can't care about you for long." Tang Jianyu pursed his lips and didn't know how to answer, and then Tang's father asked, "Do you know Teacher Du?" ”

Tang Jianyu nodded, "He said he understood, and I didn't drop the project in my hand." "If you have a plan for yourself. Please also ask me to go to the town with your mother to get to know each other so that she doesn't worry. Father Tang said and looked at his wife, and the woman turned her head and said, "No one is going!" Tang Jianyu understood, grabbed his mother's hand, and said in a soft tone: "Son, please go." Tang's mother pursed her lips, "If you beg me to go, I still have to think about it." ”

After the house was dredged, Tang Jianyu really felt relaxed, and before returning to the town, he went to Jin Hua's bar to find him after a long absence. It just so happened that the flat-headed manager went to the third store in the new city to preside over the opening, and Jin Hua, the real boss, was hiding in the old store and was caught by an old friend. "Well, there's nothing to do anyway, let's both have a drink?" Jin Hua threw a wink at Tang Jianyu on the bar, Tang Jianyu crossed Jin Hua, asked the bartender who looked like a student in the bar for a glass of soda lemonade, and walked straight to the window seat where he loved to sit.

"It's all like you, I deserve to go out of business, and I can still open three?" Jin Hua carried a bottle of gin and chased it to Tang Jianyu, Tang Jianyu took the drink sent by the bartender, thanked him and said to Jin Hua: "You know that I don't drink it easily, how can I learn to persuade me to drink?" Jin Hua looked at the street scene outside the window and said, "Now that I am a professional bar, I can't practice more!" ”

Seeing that Tang Jianyu didn't answer, Jin Hua asked, "Are you really going to go back to town?" "Well, I'll go to the middle school after the National Day in October." Jin Hua smacked his lips when he heard this, "Why don't you just go back to the village primary school!" Tang Jianyu smiled, "If you can, I can't ask for it." Jin Hua just teased a few words, and there was no judgment, he knew the temper of his old friend, and he knew the detachment of this kind of person.

There are no performances on the dance floor during the day, and the few customers who are tired from shopping come to rest, and the store shows a completely different stability than at night. Jin Hua held a glass of water and foreign wine and asked, "Does the little girl know that you are going back?" The corners of Tang Jianyu's mouth twitched, and he asked knowingly, "Who?" Jin Hua lifted his eyelids, "Shi Jiaojiao." Tang Jianyu laughed dryly, "No, why do you want to tell her?" Jin Hua pinched the string of Nanhong beads on his wrist, swallowed a sentence in his throat, and said curtly: "Aren't you the closest, why don't you stop interacting after watching it for the past two years?" Tang Jianyu lowered his head and took a sip of water, and said lightly: "It's just three years of teacher and student." ”